Bird assemblages in a mixed woodland-farmland landscape: The conservation value of silviculture-dependant open areas in plantation forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 227, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 59-70

  Paquet, Jean Yves ^a   Vandevyvre, Xavier ^a   Delahaye, Laurence ^a   Rondeux, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; Bird assemblages; Clearcut openings; Conservation value; Detrented Correspondence Analysis; Early successional communities; Edge habitats; Europe; Indicator Species analysis; Plantation forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY;

BELGIUM; BIRD ASSEMBLAGES; CLEARCUT OPENINGS; CONSERVATION VALUE; DETRENTED CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; EARLY-SUCCESSIONAL COMMUNITIES; EDGE HABITATS; EUROPE; INDICATOR SPECIES ANALYSIS; PLANTATION FOREST;

FORESTRY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIRD; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SILVICULTURE; WOODLAND;

BIRDS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 33646115175     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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